Catalogue description Typescript personal recollections of D P Iggulden

Typescript personal recollections of Douglas Percy Iggulden as a prisoner of war after his capture during World War II on the island of Leros, Greece at Oflag 79 camp, Waggum near Braunschweig, Germany. Mentions German propaganda newspaper the Camp, issued to prisoners of war which included anti-​freemasonry articles and illustrations of President Roosevelt of the United States of America with masonic symbols; transfer to Oflag VIIIF at Marisch Trubau, Moravia and then transfer to Oflag 79; meeting with another freemason, Major Clifford Downing, who had organised a Lodge of Instruction - the Brunswick Society of Improvement; meetings in the camp chapel facilitated by Padre [Albert Swales] Hullah, a Methodist and freemason; meetings in the cellars used as air raid shelters; bombardment near the camp by allied forces at the end of the war; anti-​freemasonry propaganda booklet found at a Hitler Youth Camp near the prisoner of war camp [later presented to Kent Museum of Freemasonry, Canterbury]. Paper read at East Kent Masters Lodge, NO. 3931, Lodge of Harmony, No. 133, United Industries Lodge, No. 31, Nottinghamshire Installed Masters Lodge, No. 3595, Foster Gough Lodge, No. 2706, Warwickshire Installed Masters Lodge, No. 4538 and Ethelbert Lodge, No. 2099.

Iggulden, Douglas Percy, 1907-1977

• Prisoners of war Freemasons
• Prisoners of war Freemasons British
• World War II
• World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain History
• Iggulden, Douglas Percy, 1907-1977 Biographical references
• Hullah, Albert Swales, 1885-1966 Biographical references

Oflag 79 was established by the Germans as a World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers in December 1943. Mainly British Commonwealth prisoners, men were transferred to the camp after the Battle of Crete and North African Campaign. The camp was located at Waggum near Braunschweig in Germany, also known by the English name of Brunswick. It was located in a three-story brick building that had previously been the home of a German parachute regiment, near the Hermann Göring aircraft engine factory. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 who were transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was hit by American and British aircraft, with the result that three English prisoners were killed and fourteen seriously wounded. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945.